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M.A ENGLISH (2017 - 2018)

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Core 17P1ENC1 The Ancient Literature 25 75 100 10 30 50 6 5

2 Core 17P1ENC2 The Age of Chaucer and Spenser 25 75 100 10 30 50 6 4

3 Core 17P1ENC3 The Elizabethan & Jacobean Age 25 75 100 10 30 50 6 4

4 Core 17P1ENC4 The Restoration & Neo-Classical Age 25 75 100 10 30 50 6 5

5 Major

Elective

17P1ENEL1A

17P1ENEL1B

Women Studies /

Post Colonial Fiction 25 75 100 10 30 50 6 4

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Core 17P2ENC5 The Romantic Age 25 75 100 10 30 50 5 4

7 Core 17P2ENC6 The Victorian Age 25 75 100 10 30 50 5 4

8 Core 17P2ENC7 The Modern Age 25 75 100 10 30 50 5 4

9 Core 17P2ENC8 American Literature 25 75 100 10 30 50 5 4

10 Core 17P2ENC9 Shakespear Studies: Shakespearean Theme 25 75 100 10 30 50 5 4

11 Major

Elective

17P2ENEL2A

17P2ENEL2B

One Author Study – Rabindranath Tagore /

Indian Fiction in English 25 75 100 10 30 50 5 4

12

III

Core 17P3ENC10 Indian Writing in English 25 75 100 10 30 50 5 4

13 Core 17P3ENC11 Afro – Caribbean Literature 25 75 100 10 30 50 5 4

14 Core 17P3ENC12 Modern Critical Theories 25 75 100 10 30 50 5 4

15 Core 17P3ENC13 Canadian, Australian & New Zealand Literatures 25 75 100 10 30 50 5 4

16 Core 17P3ENC14 Literature & Film 25 75 100 10 30 50 5 4

17 EDC 17P3ENEDC EDC- Studies in Shakespeare 25 75 100 10 30 50 4 -

Communicative Skill and Personality

Development (Language Lab) - - - - - - 1 -

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Core 17P4ENC15 Language & Linguistics 25 75 100 10 30 50 5 5

19 Core 17P4ENC16 Research Methodology 25 75 100 10 30 50 5 5

20 Core 17P4ENC17 Classics : World Literature in Translation –

Eastern & Western 25 75 100 10 30 50 5 4

21 Major

Elective

17P4ENEL3A

17P4ENEL3B

Translation Theory & Practice /

World Movement in Literature 25 75 100 10 30 50 5 4

22 CN 17P4ENCN Comprehension - 100 100 - 50 50 5 2

23 Project 17P4ENPR Project 40 60 100 16 24 50 4 4

Communicative skill and personality

Development Language Lab) - - - - - - 1 -

Total

2300

120 90

M.A. ENGLISH (2017 – 2018)

Paper Code Total No. Of

Papers Total Marks

Total

Credits Classification

Core 17 1700 72 �

Elective 3 300 12 �

E.D.C 1 100 --- �

Project 1 100 4 x

Comprehension 1 100 2 �

Soft skill using Language lab

-- -- --- X

Total 23 2300 90

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A.VEERIYA VANDAYAR MEMORIAL SRI PUSHPAM COLLEGE

(AUTONOMOUS), POONDI, THANJAVUR DIST.

Question Pattern for UG and PG Programmes for students to

be admitted during 2017 – 2018 and afterwards

Total Marks: 75

QUESTION PATTERN

SECTION – A

(Question 1 to 10)

10 x 2 = 20 Marks 1. Short Answer Questions

2. Two Questions from each units (All are answerable)

SECTION – B

(Question 11 to 15)

5 x 5 = 25 Marks

1. 5 Paragraph type questions with “either / or” type choice.

2. One question from each unit of the Syllabus.

3. Answer all the questions.

SECTION – C

(Question 16 to 20)

3 x 10 = 30 Marks

1. 5 Essay type questions – any three are answerable.

2. One questions from each unit of the Syllabus.

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Objective

� To provide the students with a basic knowledge of Greek and Roman civilizations

and their Mediterranean context.

Unit- I

Aristotle – The Poetics (Chapters – VI, VII, VIII)

Plato – The Republic – Book - I

Unit – II

Homer - The Iliad – Book (XVIII – XXIV)

Unit – III

Aeschylus - Agamemnon

Sophocles - King Oedipus

Unit – IV

Euripides - Medea

Aristophanes - The Frogs

Unit – V

Virgil - The Aeneid

Semester Subject Code Title Of The Paper

Hours Of

Teaching/

Week

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Credits

I 17P1ENC1 The Ancient Literature 6 5

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Objective

� To Make the Students Learn about the Spirit of the Age and enable them to

appreciate the Political, Religious, Literary and Social Problems of the Period.

Unit – I

Sir Thomas Wyatt – I Find No Peace.

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey – My Friend the Things That I Do Attain.

Spenser - From the Amoretti: Sonnet 67.

Unit – II

Walter Raleigh – The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd.

Sir Philip Sidney – From Astrophel and Stella (Sonnets 1, 15, 27).

Michael Drayton – Since there’s No Help.

Unit – III

Chaucer – Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.

Unit – IV

Spenser – Prothalamion and Epithalamion

Unit – V

Dekker – The Shoemaker’s Holiday


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17P1ENC2 The Age of Chaucer and Spenser 6 4

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Semester Subject

Code Title of The Paper

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17P1ENC3

The Elizabethan And Jacobean Age

6 4

Objective

� To get to know the 16th and early 17th Century poetry, prose and drama.

� To Make the students learn about the spirit of the Age and enable them to

appreciate the Political, Religious, Literary and social problems of the Period.

Unit – I

Milton - Paradise Lost Book IV

Unit – II

George Herbert – The Pulley.

Andrew Marvel – The Garden.

John Donne – The Sun Rising, The Canonization.

Unit – III

Francis Bacon – Of Marriage, Of Envy, Of Studies, Of Friendship.

Unit – IV

Ben Jonson – Everyman in His Humour.

John Webster - The Duchess of Malfi.

Unit – V

Marlowe – Dr.Faustus.

Shakespeare – Macbeth.

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Semester Subject Code Title of The Paper

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17P1ENC4

The Restoration And The Neo-

Classical Age

6

5

Objective

� To Make the students learn about the religious flux and political upheaval of the

age.

Unit – I

Alexander Pope – The Rape of the Lock.

John Dryden – Mc Flecknoe

Unit – II

Thomas Gray – Elegy Written In a Country Churchyard.

Burns – A Red, Red Rose.

Goldsmith – The Deserted Village.

Unit – III

Johnson – Preface to Shakeapeare

Unit – IV

Dryden - All for Love

William Congreve - Way of the World

Unit – V

Jonathan Swift – Gulliver’s Travels.

Goldsmith – The Vicar of Wakefield.

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I 17P1ENEL1A

Major Elective – I

Women Studies

6 4

Objective

� To get to know an interdisciplinary academic filed that explores the politics

society and history from women writers’ perspectives through literature.

Unit – I

Sarojini Naidu – Song of Radha, The Milkmaid.

Kamala Das – My Grandmother’s House.

Judith Wright – Fire at Murdering Hut.

Shirly Lim – Words For Father.

Razia Khan – My Daughter’s Boyfriend.

Unit – II

Elaine Showalter – Towards a Feminist Poetics.

Virginia Woolf – Professions for Women.

Unit – III

Katherine Mansfield – A Cup of Tea.

Margaret Lawrence – The Loons

Doris Lessing – England Vs England

Unit – IV

Shashi Deshpande – The Dark Holds No Terror.

Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye.

Unit – V

Arundati Roy – The God of Small Things.

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17P1ENEL1B Major Elective – I

Post-Colonial Studies 6 4

Objective

� To introduce the colonial thought, religion and social life, and to give to give an

insight the thoughts and sensibilities of nations cultures, and to know the

contemporary scene the socio, economic and tradition.

Unit – I

Anna Maria Bun – The Guardian (1838)

Unit – II

Ngugi Wa Thiongo - A Grain of Wheat (1967)

Unit – III

Thea Astley – It’s Raining in Mango.

Unit – IV

Paul Gilroy – The Empire Strikes Back.

Unit – V

Margaret Atwood – Handmaid’s Tale.

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II 17P2ENC5

The Romantic Age

5 4

Objective

� To acquaint themselves with the salient features of the romantic age.

Unit – I

Wordsworth – Prelude Book – I, Ode on the Intimations of Immortality.

Unit – II

Coleridge – Ode to Dejection, The Ancient Mariner.

John Keats – Eve of St.Agnes, Ode to a Nightingale.

Shelley – Ode to the West Wind, To the Skylark.

Byron – Don Juan.

Unit – III

Charles Lamb – Dream Children, New Year’s Eve.

William Hazlitt – My first acquaintance with Poets, On Reading Old Books.

Unit – IV

Jane Austen – Persuasion.

Thomas Hardy – Tess of the D’urbervilles.

Unit – V

Shelley – Prometheus Unbound.

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17P2ENC6

The Victorian Age

5

4

Objective

� To get to know the culture, tradition, social and political issues associated with

Victorian age.

Unit – I

Tennyson – Ulysses, Tithonus

Robert Browning –My Last Duchess, Grammarian’s Funeral.

Unit – II

Mathew Arnold – Scholar Gypsy, Dover Beach

G.M.Hopkins – God’s Grandeur.

Thomas Hardy – The Darkling Thrush.

William Morris – The Nymph’s Song to Hylas.

Unit – III

R.L.Stevenson – A College Magazine, An Apology for Idleness

A.G.Gardiner – On Saying please, On Being Idle.

Unit – IV

George Eliot – Middle March.

Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights.

Charles Dickens – Great Expectations.

Unit – V

Oscar Wilde - A Woman of No Importance

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17P2ENC7

The Modern Age

5

4

Objective

� To make the students learn about the spirit of the age and enable them to

appreciate the political, religious, literary and social problems of the period.

Unit – I

T.S.Eliot – The Waste Land.

W.B.Yeats – Sailing to Byzantium.

Wole Soyinka – Telephone Conversation.

Margaret Atwood – This is a photograph of me

Unit – II

Joseph Conrad – The Youth.

Unit – III

G.K.Chesterton – In Defence of Sanity : The Meaning of Dreams Lunacy and

Letters, Marriage and the Modern mind sidelights

Unit – IV

G.B.Shaw – Saint. Joan

J.M.Synge – The Play Boy of the Western World.

Unit – V

Joseph Conrad – Lord Jim.

Arnold Bennet – The Clayhanger Family

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II

17P2ENC8 American Literature 5 4

Objective

� To introduce the background of American literature and to familiarize them with

the important literary features and the themes and to give them the outline of the

outstanding works of the American authors.

Unit – I

Edgar Allan Poe – The Raven.

Emily Dickinson – Because I could not Stop for Death

Robert Frost – Mending Wall.

Sylvia Plath – Lady Lazarus.

Wallace Stevens – A Post Card from the Volcano.

Walt Whitman – O Captain! My Captain!

Unit – II

Robert Frost – The Figure A Poem Makes.

Henry James – The Art of Fiction.

Emerson – The American Scholar.

Unit – III

Ernest Hemingway – The Cat in the Rain

John Steinbeck – The Chrysanthemum.

Unit – IV

Arthur Miller – All My Sons.

Tennessee Williams – The Glass Menagerie.

Unit – V

Mark Twain – Huckleberry Finn.

Graham Greene – The Power and the Glory

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II 17P2ENC9

Shakespeare Studies -

Shakespearean Theme

5 4

Objective

� To introduce Shakespearean themes to the Students to expose the versatality of

Shakespeare’s Genius in all Genre.

Unit- I

Narrative Poem – The Rape of Lucrece

The Sonnets - 18, 22, 116

Unit – II

Concept of Comedy, Tragedy, The Last Plays

Unit – III

The Opening Scenes - Julius Ceasar

Treatment of the Supernatural – The tempest

The Classical Unities

Unit – IV

Soliloquies

Imagery

Unit – V

The Universal Significance.

Reference Books:

Julius Ceasar, Macbeth, King Lear, Twelfth Nights, The tempest.

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II 17P2ENEL2A

Major Elective - II

One Author Study – Rabindranath

Tagore

5 4

Objective

� To make the students concentrate on the essential humanistic religious Indian

sensibility and the universal outlook of Tagore.

Unit – I

Gitanjali (1 to 20 Lyrics)

Unit – II

The Gardener.

The Child.

Unit – III

Gora

The Home and the World.

Unit – IV

Cabuliwallah.

The Child’s Return.

The Post Master.

Babus of Nayanjore.

Unit – V

Natirpuja

Chandalika

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II 17P2ENEL2B

Major Elective – II

Indian Fiction In English

5 4

Objective

� To introduce the Indian thought, religion and social life, and to give an insight,

the thoughts and sensibilities or Indian culture, and to know the contemporary

Indian scene the socio, economic and tradition.

Unit – I

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee – Kapalkundala.

Khetrapal Chakravarti – Sarada and Hungama.

Unit – II

Rabindranath Tagore – The Wreck.

Mulk Raj Anand – The Village.

Unit – III

Khushwant Singh – I Shall Not Hear The Nightingale.

Manohar Malgonkar – A Bend in the Ganges.

Unit – IV

Arun Joshi – The Apprentice.

Sudhin N–Ghose - The Adventures.

Unit – V

Kamala Markandeya – A Handful of Rice.

Ruth Pawer Jhabvala – Heat and Dust.

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Hours of

Teaching

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Credits

III

17P3ENC10

Indian Writing In English

5

4

Objective

� To introduce the Indian though, religion and social life, and to give an insight, the

thoughts and sensibilities of Indian culture, and to know the contemporary Indian

scene the socio, economic and tradition.

Unit – I

Aurobindo – The Tiger and the Deer.

Nissim Ezekiel – Enterprise

A.K.Ramanujan – Small Scale Reflections of a Great House.

Keki.N.Daruwalla – Boat ride along the Ganga

Unit – II

Girish Karnad – Wedding Album

Unit – III

Nehru – The Discovery of India (Chapter 1- 5).

Sri KTV – Melodious Harmony (19 -23)

Unit – IV

Khushwant Singh – Train to Pakistan

Amitav Ghosh – The Glass Palace.

Unit – V

Kamala Das – Darjeeling.

Sudha Murty: Wise and Otherwise; A salute to life ( select stories)

R.K.Narayan – Sweets for Angels.

Bhabani Battacharya – Names are not Labels.

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III

17P3ENC11

Afro - Caribbean Literature

5

4

Objective

� To give an insight of African & Caribbean cultural life style.

Unit – I

Derek Walcot – Ruins of a Great House

David Diop - Africa

J.P.Clark – The Casualties

Unit – II

Nadine Gordimer – A Correspondence Course.

Vassanji – “Leaving”

Unit – III: Prose

Wole Soyinka’s Nobel Speech – This Past Must Address its Present.

Unit – IV :Drama

Ngugi-wa Thiango – The Trial of Dedan Kimathi.

Unit – V

V.S.Naipaul – A House for Mr.Biswas.

Doris Lessing – The Grass is singing.

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III 17P3ENC12

Modern Critical Theories

5 4

Objective

� To initiate the students into a study of the major essays & concepts in literary

criticism from the twentieth century and instill quality of appreciation and analysis

of the literary work in the minds of the students.

Unit – I

Edward Wilson – A Historical Interpretation of Literature

Unit – II

M.H.Abrams – Orientation of Critical Theories.

Sigmund Freud – Creative Writers and Day Dreaming.

Unit - III

I.A.Richards – The Two uses of Language, Four kinds of meaning.

Unit – IV

Lional Trilling – The meaning of a literary Idea

Northrope Frye – Archetypes of Literature

Unit – V

Gayathri Spivak – “Can the Subaltern Speak?”

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III 17P3ENC13

Canadian, Australian And New

Zealand Literatures

5 4

Objective

� To initiate the students into a study of the major literary works of the authors of

Canadian, Australia and New Zealand literatures.

Unit – I

Judith Wright – The Cycads.

F.R.Scott – The Canadian Authors Meet

A.D. Hope – Australia

Unit – II

Alice Munroe – Child’s Play

Henry Lawson – “The Drovers’ Wife”

Katherine Mansfield –The Bliss.

Unit – III

Margaret Laurence – “The Stone Angel”.

Patrick White – The Tree of Man

Unit – IV

Sharon Pallock – Walsh

Unit – V

Ondatji – Running in the Family

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III 17P3ENC14 Literature and Film 5 4

Objective

� To expose the learners to understand the Characterization, Conversation and

Dramatic Techniques and they can learn the existential skills through a few

representative text and film in literature

Unit - I

Shakespeare - Julius Caesar – Text & Film

Unit – II

Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities - Text & Film

Unit – III

Mary Shelly – Frankenstein - Text & Film

Unit – IV

Shaw – Pygmalion – (Movie name: Sound of Music)

Unit – V

Flannery 0’ Connor - The Color purple - Text & Film

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IV 17P4ENC15

Language and Linguistics

5 5

Objective

To initiate the students to have an adequate knowledge of the history of the English

language through a diachronic study of the language tracing its development from the

time of the earliest records in the language to present day. To introduce the

phonological, morphological, and syntactical, semantic changes. To introduce to

linguistics and to familiarize them, with modern linguistic theories for a more creative

and competitive use of language.

Unit – I

The Renaissance and After.

The Growth of Vocabulary

Unit – II

Change of Meaning.

Unit – III

The Evolution of Standard English.

Idiom and Metaphor.

The Foreign Contribution.

Unit – IV

What Is Language, Lexis, Semantics, Phonetics and Phonology.

Unit – V

Morphology.

Syntax.

Historical Linguistics.

The Language of Western Europe.

Reference Books/ Text Books:

F.T.Wood – An Outline History of the English Language (Macmillan)

Jindal – An Introduction to Linguistics.

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IV 17P4ENC16

Research Methodology

5 5

Objective

This course aims at familiarizing the students with characteristics that mark effective

writing, providing adequate information for the preparation of a seminar paper, training

them in the rhetoric of the words, sentences and paragraph, making a review of

grammar and modern English usage.

Unit – I

Assignments and the Theses at the Tertiary Level

1. Writing at the Tertiary level 2. Planning the assignment

3. Planning the Theses.

Unit – II

Writing the Theses or assignment

Unit – III

The General Format

Unit – IV

The Mechanics of Writing – Norms and Conventions.

Unit – V

Revising the Theses or Assignment

Reference:

Anderson . Theses and Assignment Writing, March 1991

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writes of Research Papers, 8th Edition.

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IV 17P4ENC17

Classics : World Literature In

Translation (Eastern And Western)

5 4

Objective

To expose students to the various concepts in various genre’ in World Literature

through Translation.

Unit – I

Thirukkural – Hospitality (Chapter - 9)

Dr. S.Raman – The Good Path (Nalvazhi).

Dr. A.Dakshinamoorthy – Kurunthogai. (Select Verses)

Omar Khayyam - Poems ( Select Verses)

Unit – II

Khalil Gibran – Broken Wings.

Unit – III

Henrik Ibsen – A Doll’s House.

Kalidasa – Shakuntala.

Unit – IV

T.S.Pillai – Chemmeen.

Voltaire - Candide

Unit – V

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Translated by Gregory Rabassa

Private Zones by Jeyakanthan - English Translation by C.P. Ravikumar

In search of the Ganges by Naa.Parthasarathi-Translator R.Natarajan ( Gangai

Innum Vatrividavillai )

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17P4ENEL3A Major Elective – III

Translation Theory And Practice 5 4

Objective

To instill the students to introduce the different theories of translation and to

make them learn the art of translation using the theories.

Unit – I

History of Translation.

Unit – II

Theories of Translation.

Unit – III

Literary Translation.

Unit – IV

Scientific and Machine Translation.

Unit – V

Practice of Translation –

A) English to Tamil – Poem.

B) Tamil to English – Prose.

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IV 17P4ENEL3B

Major Elective –III

World Movement In Literature.

5 4

Objective:

To acquaint themselves the new development in literary activities

Unit – I

Humanitarianism.

Unit – II

Imagism, Symbolism

Unit – III

Rococo and Other Stylistic Movements from Architecture.

Unit – IV

Socialism, Marxism, Feminism.

Unit – V

Post Colonialism, Post Modernism.

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